www.network81.com schrieb am 05.06.2002 13:39 Uhr MESZ:
wasn't the first electronic-drumsound on the pink floyd "dark side of the moon" album? the drumsolo on "time"???
let's not mix up the terms. what we can hear on the pink floyd album are ELECTRONIC DRUMS. which means: it's nick mason drumming with real sticks on pads. the drumsound is generated electronically, and the sound is artificial. the "wendel" machine (other sources say "wendal") is a DRUM MACHINE, constructed by roger nichols, and i'm quite sure that this was the first device using *sampled* sounds of *real* drums. the rhythm patterns are programmable. if you listen to the mentioned steely dan album (gaucho), there is no chance to realize that it's no human drummer drumming. (the follow-up "wendel II" can be heard on donald fagen's album "the nightfly".) later on, iirc around 1982, the Linn drum machine was the first drum computer at reasonable price using samples of real drums. the other thing is the RHYTHM MACHINE; in germoney we call them "Klopfgeister" ("knocking ghosts???"). the first time i heard such a thing on a rock album was in 1971 on "tago mago" by can (they used a device made by echolette), but maybe there have been earlier examples somewhere. these devices are electronically generating *drum-like* artificial sounds; the early machines had preset rhythm patterns (then it's sometimes called "rhythm box"), later on they became programmable. this type of machine which is imitating real drums goes back to the "rhythmicon", constructed in the thirties by leon theremin. John McIntyre schrieb am 05.06.2002 17:33 Uhr MESZ:
Arthur Brown's band Kingdom Come was using a Bentley drum machine instead of a human drummer around the time of their 1972 _Journey_ album.
never heard about that manufacturer. anyway, i'm sure it's not a drum machine but a rhythm machine in the above sense. jan -- feel free to visit http://www.jan-reetze.de email: dasfestistzuendeaus@yahoo.de _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com